Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92

10:15 AM,
Jul. 20, 2013

Senior White House correspondent for UPI Helen Thomas smiles as she is presented with three rum cakes by Dan Kahn, right, to celebrate her 79th birthday following the daily White House briefing, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1999.

Written by

Calvin Woodward
AP

WASHINGTON - Helen Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism and an irrepressible White House correspondent, has died. She was 92.

A friend, Muriel Dobbin, says Thomas died at her apartment in Washington on Saturday morning. Dobbin says Thomas has been ill for a long time, had been in and out of the hospital, and had come home Thursday.